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    Chris Schuchmann

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  1. Review - Google Chrome for Windows

    1.0.154.42 (Dec 23, 2008)

    My experience with Google Chrome has been excellent. It is a rocket compared to all other browsers including Opera which I used until Chrome was released.

    The compatibility with websites has gotten progressively better with each automatic update. The only websites I have come across that don't work with this browser are early AJAX web applications I use at work. These were created in 2004 and were specifically written for IE (6.0 at the time) and they don't work with firefox, opera, or safari either.

    It does not have all the wizbang plugins and skins that Firefox has but that's fine. 99% of those plugins are superfluous anyway adding little value to the actual navigation experience.

    My only complaints with Chrome is the sketchy support for flash and other plugins which is more the fault of Adobe and other developers than Google. This too has gotten better but at first I had trouble watching videos on hulu.com.

  2. Comment - Teacher must still surrender license in bizarre 'exposure to porn' suit

    1.0.154.42 (Nov 29, 2008 - 3:59 PM)

    The parents of the children should file suit against the school district for endangering thier children.

  3. Comment - Teacher must still surrender license in bizarre 'exposure to porn' suit

    1.0.154.42 (Nov 29, 2008 - 3:57 PM)

    It seems to me that the school district should be held accountable for this. If the teacher was able to access pornography, due to the lack of a proper firewall and IT department(or even person) then there is nothing preventing the students from accessing it. By the logic applied by the court this would "risk injury to a minor, and potentially impair the morals of a child."

    Ridiculousness

  4. Comment - Apple denies it caved in to NBCU's requests on iTunes pricing

    1.0.154.42 (Sep 11, 2008 - 8:27 PM)

    Incorrect my friend, apple's itunes is nothing more than the equivalent of a middle man. Without the work and art of others to push, apples itunes would go bankrupt quicker than Enron. NBCU has its own distribution network, thats vertically integrated. Why would they steal sales from their current distribution network to give part of their margin to cr-apple. Videos don't need to be bought on itunes to be used on an ipud.

  5. Comment - Harris: Two-Thirds Will Say No to Vista

    1.0.154.42 (Apr 5, 2007 - 9:17 PM)

    It's ironic that everyone says Vista is nothing more than Windows 2003 Server with a nice new GUI on it. To be honest thats kinda true, but is that a bad thing? Is that not what 98 was with respect to 95? Or what XP was to 2000?

    Your argument is that there is nothing you can do on Vista that you can't do on XP... right?

    However your arguement is flawed because you are running XP....

    The reason I say this and in reality there is very little that you can do on XP that you can't do on Windows 2000, so if your only argument is that you can't do anything new on Vista that you couldn't do on XP then what possessed you to upgrade to XP back in the day? If that was your argument you are now just foolish for using XP according to your own standard.

    The GUI of Vista is simply much better than XP and you will eventually switch to it just like you did with XP back in the day and you will ask yourself how you ever lived without it.

    The most major changes I have noticed is how Vista uses the advanced capabilities of you're video card to render everything. The graphics capabilities of Vista as far as the GUI is concerned is something that XP DOESN'T HAVE!!! Window Blinds and programs of the like don't even come close to what the AERO GUI has to offer. I know because I've used windows Blinds for 8 years now. The most basic example of the advanced graphics capabilities that Vista has to offer is when you have Windows media player open playing a DVD and you use the fancy window switcher. Notice that while you're selecting the 'Slide' of which program you want to use, the WMP Slide is still updating playing the movie. You could literately watch the movie on the slide and the 45* angle that it puts the slide at. The window switcher actively updates as opposed to just using an icon or taking a snapshot at the time you press the button to bring up the window switcher. I know this seems small but its allot easier said that done. XP could in NO WAY do ANYTHING AT ALL LIKE THIS. They had programs that tried and the most they could do was take a snapshot.

    Vista has a lot of under the hood changes especially to the graphics engine of the GUI and it makes for a much more esthetically pleasing and intuitive experience.

    As for people complaining about hardware I am running it on my A7n8X Deluxe with a Athlon XP processor running at 2.5GHz, with a Radeon 9700Pro Graphics card. It runs fine. The only thing is it uses a LOT more ram. With XP I could get by with 512MB of ram just fine. Now I am upgrading to 1.5GB, but such is the nature of the beast. Its a new operating system. Every operating system that has ever been released has required more than the predecessor. The programmers of new software are just as guilty as Microsoft on this one. The new version of NERO for example is a 150MB download and uses 60MB of ram. I remember back in the day when Nero was a 10MB download and it did the exact same thing it does now... burn CDs!

    The only bad thing I have found with vista is the "User Account Control" feature that asks you if you want to do "critical system" stuff... Great for work and school computers annoying for power users. The mac commercial pretty much sums it up. But you can turn it off and if you don't know how to turn if off (its simple). Then you should probably just leave it on so that windows can protect you from yourself.

    Anyway this rant has gone on long enough...

    You will all one day be using Vista and you will enjoy it. The only reason you are throwing such a fit about it now is because it costs $200+ to upgrade instead of the usual $99 like past versions. That and the fact that Microsoft has made is such a hassle to pirate you're mad because you can't get it for free.